Summer Pasture, Rambo and Rambutt

by | Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

Late Summer Grazing. The bare patch in the pasture is where we burned the prunings this year. I need to find a different way to deal with the pruning debris because it hurts the pasture to burn it. Rambo and his buddy Rambutt. Rambutt is the one looking at us, he has...

Rambo

by | Jun 27, 2010 | Uncategorized

Rambo the bottle baby is doing great. He comes up for his bottle but then races back to his buddy and sheep mom. Ken is the dinner provider though. Doing well for being flat when he came out. Desert Weyr Farm Blog

Moving Sheep and New Hay

by | Jun 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

We moved the sheep to the other side of the orchard today and discovered that very new lambs are able to climb back through the divider fence. We managed to get them all back but it was a bit of a challenge. Hay is finally being delivered. The cold spring made first...

The Lambs

by | Jun 20, 2010 | Uncategorized

I believe that we are now done lambing. There are still a bunch of ewes left to lamb but none have significant udders. The AI experiment seems to have really messed up their cycles. But then if we knew how to make it all work it wouldn’t be an experiment,...